Well, it's been a little while since I've updated the blog. We are all here in Michigan now, waiting on baby to arrive (2 days late as of right now!) Samuel, Rachel and I arrived in the height of the blossoming of the apple orchards in the area where my parents live. It was a spectacular difference from the dry, hot, brown environment that we'd just come from. The children are definitely enjoying all of the wildlife, and greeness here in Sparta. Samuel has ridden "Smokey", Aunt Liz's horse, and both have enjoyed golf cart rides with Grandpa. The favorite thing to do is tease "Mr. Grumpy pants" the male swan who is protecting a nest with his mate. The eggs (9) have unfortunately not hatched, and are well beyond the normal incubation time, but Mr. Grumpy pants still tries to catch the golf cart and the kids enjoy squealling with delight when he makes a run at the golf cart. Both the children enjoyed the annual summer preparation of the house with the planting of hundreds of flowers. The current project is the vegetable garden, which is only about 1/10th planted. Both Samuel and Rachel are now the proud owners of "garden boots" to help with the process. We hope that the next entry will be an announcement of the arrival of our little one. I suppose it is taking it's cues from it's siblings, who were 8 and 2 days late respectively. What the baby doesn't know is that 6 weeks from today we are due to fly back to Niger, and the visa in and of itself could take 4 weeks to accomplish, not to mention birth certificate, SS #, passport, etc. We trust that the Lord's timing is perfect for all of this though, and look forward to the arrival.
5 comments:
LOVE Samuel's sneakers!!
Hugs to all
xo
Excited about your new baby, can't wait to hear the news! Samuel looks so big now!!! They grow up too fast!
Welcome back!!
Hope you and yours are well. Any baby's yet?? Hope to hear from you, would love to see you while your here.
Ryan and Janna Wiersma
We've heard rumors there is another little face to be seen in the family! Where are the pictures???? Don't keep us in suspense too long! Hope all is going well. We're praying for you all!
We were in that place with the birth of our fourth, but managed to have a passport in hand in two weeks after the birth. We first went to the hospital and they gave us the papers to hand carry to the office for the birth certificate, who rushed it through in one day. Then on to the SS office who told us the card would take a few weeks, but they would get the number on their computer by the next day. They promised to phone with that. When they did, by 11 the next day, we went and applied for the passport expedited with the passport photos we had got on the way home from the hospital. Before she was two weeks old, we had a passport in hand! Then my husband drove 18 hours to the embassy and got the visa in one day. Memories!
Hope all is going well for you. I came across your site from Cindy's
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